The overpaid, overrated and over the hill have been overrun, overcome and overwhelmed too many times this year. One more defeat and their season will be over.
Manchester United have to confound their critics, a category that also seems to include their co-owner. Sir Jim Ratcliffe had made some disparaging comments about some of the squad. Andre Onana, Casemiro and Rasmus Hojlund, three who were named in a complaint – albeit that United will have to use their funds in the summer paying for players who were bought in 2022 and 2023 – could have a significance if they are to beat Real Sociedad. “It is also important to give us more energy to continue the season,” said Ruben Amorim. They are not the normal comments of a United head coach in the first half of March.
